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Ever wondered to yourself, how does LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) work?? Here’s a simple video that may help should some light on the topic for you. About the video… This NEON Science video overviews what lidar or light detection and ranging is, how it works and what types of information it can provide. The video was produced by the National Ecological Observatory Network – a non profit project devoted to open science and open data.

With the year end almost here many of the popular online learning resources are sharing their top courses from 2015. No huge surprise but once again, Python programming courses cracked the Top 10 with popular E-Learning resource Coursera.

Are you ambassador material? Have you got game and are you passionate about teaching others? Geospatial professionals, educators & students encouraged to help youth develop problem-solving skills using technology. Esri Canada connects GIS Ambassadors with schools in their community and provides a wealth of teaching resources including lesson plans, tutorials and activities for students. Interested participants may contact the Education and Research group at k12@esri.ca.

An interesting MOOC from Esri with a focus on Location analytics starts soon. This from Esri… The Location Advantage is a free, instructor-led massive open online course (MOOC) that will be offered by Esri for the first time on May 12th in 2015 and lasts 6 weeks.

This free online training from Esri kicks off tomorrow, March 3 so you better be quick if you want to take advantage of this! From Esri… ” This Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is for people who know something about data analysis and want to learn about the special capabilities of spatial data analysis. – See more

An impressive effort here, Map of the growth of Colleges in America. In order to create the product, I’m told by creator, Mike Summons, that he manually searched for each college’s founding date and latitude/longitude, finishing with a list of 2,068 schools!

About the Project… eCollegeFinder is back with new map, this time it’s in motion! From the creators… Late in 2014, we stumbled across Flowing Data’s map showing“The Growth of Walmart”, whichExcel Herorecreated using a simple Excel workbook. We found the map to be mesmerizing and immensely informative, telling the story of Walmart in such a simple fashion. So much so, that we decided to recreate a similar map of our own, this time looking at “The Growth of Colleges in America”.

I really dig how ESRI serves up so much great EDU material just for the taking… really, apart from a school maybe having a lack of hardware, there’s really no reason why any high school geography class (or club) can’t get up and running with a GIS and do some really fun lessons. Case in point, Joe Kerski from the ESRI EDU team in Boulder, CO has just today reminded us via Twitter (see @josephkerski) about an interesting lesson available where students use GIS (perhaps the free ArcGIS Explorer or an affordable or Free ArcGIS EDU license) to select wind farm site locations in Colorado – check out the lesson HERE and maybe think about downloading a lesson or two for yourself to share with the kids som time – you could be on your way to becoming a GeoMentor